Projects!

Somehow amidst potty training Gabby I managed to do a bunch of projects. I was on a roll and I could not be stopped. I didn't hardly even sit down last week I swear. Scott's parents brought us beautiful refurbished furniture. So it was out with the old and in with the new. The problem was we still had some of the old and I didn't like the look of the color scheme with the new furniture. I've been wanting to redecorate my room for a long time so this was the perfect excuse and time to do it. Plus I think this is the first time in 2 and a half months that I was making something for myself and not for the wedding, so that made it fun and exciting as well.

 I was trying to think how I could incorporate some of the old furniture and color scheme and make it new and fit better together. I started with a great bedspread I found at Marshals. I love it! I then went to JoAnn's and found fabric that had red, brown, yellow, and a light bluish color. That way I could still use my old curtains, rug, and my grandma's chair I recovered but still add some new fresh colors to my room. I then took my old gold metal mirror and spray painted it yellow. I bought a new full length mirror and painted that yellow as well. I found a lamp at Savers for $2.99, I think I was supposed to pay a separate price for the lamp shade and the stand but with some miscommunication with the teller I only paid $2.99. I was feeling horrible, like I had robbed Savers so I went back to try to pay more and 3 workers including the manager said not to worry about it. With that I felt okay, and this lamp for $2.99 was a steal literally. Ha.  I then bought some paint at Lowes. I am learning new things as I craft. They can mix you up a sample of paint for $3 of any color you want and the quality is so good. I don't know if I will ever buy craft paint again. Lowes paint is better. I wish I would have picked a color that was a little more greenish but brown and blue look really good together so that's okay. I mod podged fabric onto the lampshade. This does not make the lamp very useable as it has dark fabric on the inside now and still shines green out the top. That's okay, it's mostly decorative. I bought a pillow form and sewed fabric on it. I am currently working on cutting out tons of flowers I am going to sew on it. This is the only thing left that I have to do. Yesterday I bought the materials to make a few of my own fake plant arrangements and I put them together and bam I'm basically all done.

I'm so happy about the transformation. My kids aren't as happy, we used to let them jump all over the bed and climb and jump off the furniture. Their days of playing in our room are over. I don't consider myself a decorator at all so I am pleased with what I was able to put together. I love it and I am very happy.

We moved our old dresser into the kid's room along with a book shelf. I bought that book shelf 7 years ago from the D.I. for $10 I think. It was the worst thing you have ever seen. One weekend while Scott and I were dating I went home and he secretly painted this book shelf along with a little dresser over the weekend. It was like night and day. They looked so much better! We have kept that crappy furniture all these years and we don't have any plans of getting rid of it any time soon. They have a little sentimental value for both of us and I am not sentimental. Scott spent hours, and hours painting those. Cute! Anyway the bookshelf had these weird holes everywhere. So this week I got the idea to cover the holes with cardstock and mod podge fabric on them. I already had the fabric and I think it works pretty well for girls and boys. It's hard having a boy and girl share a room, when it comes to decorating. Luckily it had green, pink, and orange, which are in Gabby and Piper's decorations and blue in Corbin's. So I think it works. Plus it's cute and more fun and covers those stupid holes. The end!

Scott repainted this for me, you should have seen it before! Those stupid weird holes always bugged me.

Putting fabric on totally worked. So much cuter!

Before

After (that pillow will be cuter, I need to sew a million cute little flowers on them).

Before

After

This wall was the biggest mess. I didn't have the keyboard in there anymore but woof.

After

I used to have my full length mirror over here.

Before, the stand was natural wood color. I forget to take a picture before I started painting it.

After. The best part about this was I slabbed a lot of strips of fabric and I wasn't sure if it would work because it is directional but it totally did. Score!